Edited by Sarah Wright, Emma Wilson, and Stephanie Hemelryk-Donald, the book includes contributions on representations and explorations of childhood in the national cinemas of China, Spain, UK, Australia, amongst many others, providing an in-depth and wide-reaching interrogation of the multifarious role of both childhood and nation in world cinema.

Home and away
1. ‘A bath, a toilet and a field’: dreaming and deprivation in Lynne Ramsay’s RatcatcherVicky Lebeau (University of Sussex, UK)
2. Lost and found: children in Indigenous Australian cinemaGreg Dolgopolov (University of New South Wales, Australia)
3. ‘Away from girlhood’: Catherine Breillat’s BluebeardEmma Wilson (Corpus Christi College, UK)Disappearance and removal
4. The lost children of Latvia: deportees and postmemory in Dzintra Geka’s The Children of SiberiaStephanie Hemelryk Donald (University of New South Wales, Australia)and Klara Bruveris (University of New South Wales, Australia)
5. Among the Nations: Children as Czechs, Germans and Jews in post-1980 Czech cinematic representations of the Second World WarJan Lánícek (University of New South Wales, Australia)
6. Child, cinema, dictatorship: Ignacio Agüero’sOne Hundred Children Waiting for a TrainSarah Wright (University of London, UK)Education and Serious Games
7. Graphic tales: class, violence and South Korean childhood in Sang-Ho Yeon’s The King of PigsSusan Danta (University of New South Wales,Australia)
Citizenship in the classroom: the politicisation of child subjects in Nicolas Philibert’sTo Be and To Have and Laurent Cantet’sThe ClassVictoria Flanagan
Education, destiny, and national identity in Raúl Ruiz’s Manoel on the Island of WondersStefan Solomon (University of New South Wales, Australia)
An allegorical childhood: identity and coming of age in Terry Loane’s Mickybo and MeJennifer R. Beckett(University of Melbourne, Australia)Performance
Terrorism and trainers in a transnational remake: child labour and commodity culture in the Bollywood adaptation of New Iranian Cinema’s Children of HeavenMichael Lawrence (University of Sussex, UK)
The child as hyphen: Yamina Benguigui’s Inch’allah DimancheHannah Kilduff (University of Cambridge, UK)Beiqing, kuqing and national sentimentality in Liu Junyi’s Left-behind ChildrenZitong Qiu and Maria Elena Indelicato (Zhejiang University, China)
Children’s toys, Argentine nationhood and blondness in Albertina Carri’s Barbie Gets Sad Too and Néstor F. and Martín C.’s Easy MoneyJordana Blejmar (University of Liverpool, UK)